June 12 at the Rickshaw

Clearly not a man of the opinion that one needs to put down roots, New Zealand–born Connan Mockasin has called London, Manchester, Los Angeles, and Tokyo home during his time on this astral plane.

The enigmatic psych-pop hero’s latest, Jassbusters, once again suggests that, just as he refuses to stay in one physical place, Mockasin’s all about moving around artistically, the record conceived as a “five-part melodrama” nodding everywhere from the Bee Gees to your last acid freakout.

Sometimes, weird is good—or, at the least, a welcome break from grinding normalcy.